Sick of dealing with -- or worse, falling for -- spam emails that claim to come from companies like Facebook, Yahoo, Google or the like? Hope is at hand, as those companies (and many others) have joined together to create a new system to verify where your emails come from.
Finally, those spam emails claiming to offer large amounts of money if only you’ll act right now have finally paid off… and fairly substantially, for that matter. Yahoo announced yesterday that it had won a $610 million judgment in a lawsuit against several defendants accused of fraud.
It’s sad but probably inevitable: When someone as recognizable and popular as Apple’s Steve Jobs passes away, cyber crooks and spam moguls turn up in droves.
Sanford Wallace’s claim to fame as the Spam King dates back to the late ’90s, when his company, Cyber Promotions, became notorious for sending unsolicited junk emails to the masses.
It’s sad, but it’s true: Spam is as spam does. It gets everywhere. It’s now found its way into Amazon’s Kindle e-book store.
“Wow! See who viewed your twitter with Profile Spy.”
Do you “like” things on Facebook? Spammers like things, too, and they’re using Facebook’s “Like” function to put their obnoxious schemes and shameless missives everywhere.
Have you noticed less spam in your inbox today? Maybe not, but you can rest assured that less will be coming your way soon, thanks to the takedown of something called the Rustock botnet, one of the world’s most active spam-generators.
About a month ago, Google launched a Chrome browser extension that let users hide specific domains from search results. Soon, that feature will be available in multiple web browsers — no extension required.
The war between the search engines and the spammers continues, with up-and-coming Google alternative Blekko wielding the stick against over a million spam sites.
If you’ve started to notice more junk mail in your email inboxes, it’s not just you: Reports are showing that spam has returned. For some reason, the world’s number one source of those annoying unsolicited emails, Russian Rustock, just decided to give you a break on Christmas Eve, according to the New York Times. After [...]
